@mapleI would contact your local Canadian consulate and enquire about political assylum. Canada is pretty open to helping people if the assylum needs are genuine. Canada has taken a lot of syrian refugees (tens of thousands) in recent years.

Thats the legal option.

The illegal option would be illegally cross the border from the us and then claim assylum. Thousands do that each week and are well cared for while being processed.

I have this little nuc as a desktop that runs ubuntu. I mainly use my laptop for everything, so it sits there. So instead of wiping it and making it purely a server, I just wanted to quickly add nextcloud server to it.